Design and engineering are two sides of the same coin when it comes to building software and hardware, and yet — unlike engineers, who can use services like GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab or many others to help manage their development process — it’s traditionally been slim pickings for designers when it comes to tools to manage […]
View More Abstract, a versioning platform that helps designers work like developers, raises $30MCategory: funding
Blameless emerges from stealth with $20M investment to help companies transition to SRE
Sight Reliable Engineering (SRE) is an extension of DevOps designed for more complex environments. The problem is that this type of approach is difficult to implement and has usually only been in reach of large companies, requiring custom software. Blameless, a Bay Area startup, wants to put it reach of everyone. It emerged from stealth […]
View More Blameless emerges from stealth with $20M investment to help companies transition to SRECamera maker Insta360 raises $30M as it eyes 2020 IPO
Insta360, one of the pioneers in making 360-degree cameras, just raised $30 million in a Series C+ funding round from Chinese investors including Everest Venture Capital, MG Holdings and Huajin Capital. The Shenzhen-based camera maker declines to disclose its latest valuation. It plans to use the fresh proceeds in research and development, marketing and after-sales services […]
View More Camera maker Insta360 raises $30M as it eyes 2020 IPOAlcohol e-commerce startup Thirstie raises $7M
Thirstie announced today that it has raised $7 million in Series A funding, and that it’s partnering with Drinkworks to power the e-commerce experience for the cocktail-making machine created by Keurig and Anheuser-Busch. Co-founder and CEO Devaraj Southworth suggested that this is emblematic of the company’s current direction — rather than building a consumer app […]
View More Alcohol e-commerce startup Thirstie raises $7MGlossier triples valuation, enters unicorn club with $100M round
The direct-to-consumer beauty brand has secured new investment from Sequoia Capital at a valuation of $1.2 billion.
View More Glossier triples valuation, enters unicorn club with $100M roundSingapore fintech startup Instarem closes $41M Series C for global growth
Singapore’s Instarem, a fintech startup that helps banks and consumers send money overseas at lower cost, has closed a $41 million Series C financing round to go after global expansion opportunities. The four-year-old company announced a first close of $20 million last November, and it has now doubled that tally (and a little extra) thanks […]
View More Singapore fintech startup Instarem closes $41M Series C for global growthOptimization company Marketing Evolution raises $26.1M
Marketing Evolution is announcing that it has raised $26.1 million in growth funding. The New York City-headquartered company says it can measure marketing across different channels, delivering the data while the campaign is still running, to a dashboard full of recommendations on how to make the campaign more effective. It recently introduced what it calls […]
View More Optimization company Marketing Evolution raises $26.1MUK’s Automata raises $7.4M for its lightweight industrial ‘desktop’ robot
Manufacturing has been one of the biggest and earliest adopters of robotics innovations in the last several years, but with that early movement has also come entrenchment: the industry is rife with expensive, oversized machines that often run on proprietary operating systems, making them hard to upgrade and use in consort with other robots. Now […]
View More UK’s Automata raises $7.4M for its lightweight industrial ‘desktop’ robotY Combinator bets on the booming podcast industry
Brew helps creators get paid to podcast with a subscription-based app complete with original shows.
View More Y Combinator bets on the booming podcast industryDecade in review: Trends in seed- and early-stage funding
We’ve decided to step back from the breaking news for a minute to conduct a review of seed and early-stage funding trends over the last decade for U.S.-based companies. I’m fairly certain we can all agree that the environment for startups has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, specifically in two major ways: The […]
View More Decade in review: Trends in seed- and early-stage fundingStartups Weekly: Uber’s headline-grabbing week and sextech at SXSW
In this week’s newsletter: The college admissions scandal engulfs TPG, Accel raises $2.5B for three funds and investing app Stash brings in $65M.
View More Startups Weekly: Uber’s headline-grabbing week and sextech at SXSWZeus raises $24M to make you a living-as-a-service landlord
Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones. When an employee needs to move to a new city for a few months, they’re either stuck in bland, giant apartment complexes or Airbnbs meant for shorter stays. But Zeus lets any homeowner get paid to host white-collar transient labor. Through its managed ownership model, Zeus takes […]
View More Zeus raises $24M to make you a living-as-a-service landlord